Jordan Speer
Jordan Speer is Research Manager for IDC Retail Insights, responsible for covering the global supply chain. Ms. Speer’s core research examines how digital technology opens opportunities to better connect and optimize the execution of the end-to-end supply chain from order creation through order fulfillment. Her research includes sourcing, transportation, warehouse, order, and labor management, returns, and global trade management with particular emphasis on how leading-edge technologies such as AI and analytics are key to evolving and improving these processes. Ms. Speer works with retailers and technology providers to help all parties understand where the industry is headed and which best practices will align with their strategies to take them there. Before joining IDC in late 2019, Ms. Speer was the editor in chief of Apparel magazine.